Good Morning.
Today is our 2,386th day in Iraq.
We'll start this morning as we always do, with the latest casualty figures from Iraq and Afghanistan, courtesy of Antiwar.com:
American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4345
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4206
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3882
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3486
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 117
Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 325
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 838
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 566
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,395
Journalists - Iraq: 335
Academics Killed - Iraq: 431
We find this morning's
cost of war passing through:
$ 914, 729, 400, 000 .00 Turning to our friends at IAVA....I haven't posted the news from them
verbatim in quite some time. It's easy to do, so I try not to do it that often. But on the other hand, we haven't had a straight "ask a vet" in a while either. So....
here's the latest daily briefing.
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